Clifford Chance is opening an office in Houston with a 10-partner team focused on energy infrastructure transactions, including seven hires from competitor law firms.

Media company Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc.’s 2022 acquisition of the video rental kiosk operator Redbox Entertainment Inc. raised eyebrows among both companies’ investors, leading to lawsuits in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking more information about the deal. One of those books-and-records claims goes to trial this week.

The estate of a corporation founder fighting to exclude his life insurance proceeds from being counted toward the company’s fair market value was unable to dissuade the Eighth Circuit from upholding a $1 million tax bill from the IRS.

An FM Global insurance unit beat a Wisconsin health-care system’s appeal over $85 million in costs incurred during the Covid-19 pandemic after the Seventh Circuit said the hospitals’ losses aren’t covered by its $2 billion insurance policy.

Californians looking to buy a house face some of the country’s most expensive real estate prices and wildfires that threaten scores of housing tracts. Now there’s another obstacle: finding an insurer willing to cover their dream home.

The IRS and Treasury intend to address in upcoming proposed rules the ambiguities for tax-exempt and government entities that receive clean energy tax credits and grants, an IRS official said Friday.